Who is in the best position to speak about whether Ethereal can read
proprietary HP RPCs?
> > >"BERUBE,KELLAH (HP-USA,ex1)" <kellah_berube@xxxxxx> on 01/11/2002
03:03:43
> > >PM
> > >
> > >To: Nelson Goodman/AO/USR/FTU@FTU
> > >cc: Peter Makohon/AO/USR/FTU@FTU
> > >
> > >Subject: RE: RPC information and using Ethereal
> > >
> > >
> > >Nelson:
> > >I wanted to give you a status. Our support engineers are looked into
your
> > >questions regarding proprietary RPC calls. Here is their response:
> > >
> > > "Regarding your question whether or not HP has any proprietary
RPC
> > >code. The answer is Yes, all of our code for that matter is
> proprietary in
> > >that it is not open source that customers may pull down and modify at
> their
> > >will. We ported the ONC release from Sun about a couple of years ago,
and
> > >our current code is 1.2 with some functionality from 2.3 built on
> top. So,
> > >basically we have the same ONC software as sun."
> > >
> > > "The library that we use is libnsl for most of the main
components
> > >of rpc and nfs. If the vendor has a working solution already for HP,
then
> > >they should be able to troubleshoot the problem, and/or work with us
if
> > >they
> > >do not."
> > >So, if Guy Harris and the Ethereal folks want to work with our
Engineering
> > >team, we can hook them up on this Case number = 3200534109. Let me
know.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Kella